Author : David Christopher Young
Release : 1998
Genre : Māori (New Zealand people)
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Woven by Water by : David Christopher Young

Download or read book Woven by Water written by David Christopher Young. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " 'The mana of the Māori is by water. No one, here, carrying the same thing that I'm carrying today' TITI TIHU" "In living memory, before the Whanganui River became a tawny mass seeming to flow upside down, the river bed was clean stone and the water of the river '... tasted like kōwhai. The trees used to grow over the river and drop into the water, and the water tasted like kōwhai.' This is a book of many river people - a 'hidden' prophet, living with over a thousand followers at a place now deserted; a Pākehā-Māori, making gunpowder using charcoal made from willows grown from cuttings taken from Napoleon's grave; a riverboat magnate, building a fiefdom on 'the Rhine of Maoriland'; a highly decorated soldier, fighting as a kūpapa yet fighting for tino rangatiratanga; arsenic and flour poisoners - and always, the river itself. ' Ngā toa pohe e ngari to hoe' "--BACK COVER.